How to connect to database????/

[raghu4uon]

hi

Can anyone give source code for connecting oracle 8 database to my java project????? i'm using jdk1.5, tomcat web server, oracle 8..... i have created the tables but i dont know how to connect?????


plz help me reagrding this!!!!!!


Regards


Raghu N

[debasisdas]

Please find the details here .

[raghu4uon]

can you please tell me what does this line do????

Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
         con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:lab2com38","scott","tiger");

Regards

Raghu.

[debasisdas]

That establishes the connects to the oracle server with username and password.

[r035198x]

can you please tell me what does this line do????

Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
         con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:lab2com38","scott","tiger");

Regards

Raghu.

The Class.forName loads a class. In this case it loads the database driver for oracle (See the API specs for the Class class for more details).
The second line, like Debas said, establishes a connection with database using the previously loaded driver and the provided connection parameters.